Australia is a country with more than 5000 megawatts of solar energy installed, as one of the sunniest continents in the world; we can’t question why solar energy is a fast growing industry in this country. The amount of solar power installation in Australia dramatically increased in 2009 and 2011, and it quadrupled its number in between 2011 and 2016. One of the reasons in the rapid increase of solar energy in Australia is the Feed-in tariffs and the mandatory renewable energy target designed to assist renewable energy commercialisation. In the South part of Australia, solar feed-in tariff was introduced for households and an educational program that involved installing PVs on the roofs of major public buildings such as the Adelaide Airport, State Parliament, Museum, Art Gallery and several hundred public schools. Commercial Solar Power in Australia To save money, one of the best thing to do in Australia is to switch in solar especially if you’re having a business. Commercial solar power systems are more affordable than ever in Australia, which is why a large (and growing) number of businesses with unshaded roof space and ample daytime electricity loads have gone or are going solar. Top 3 Benefits of Commercial Solar Power: Solar is Affordable You read it right, since solar energy has dropped its price for 80% in just 5 years, commercial solar installation prices are at all-time lows in Australia, partially due to the federal government solar subsidies available through Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET). For solar systems up to 100kW in capacity, the RET provides an up-front incentive in the form of Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs). For systems larger than 100kW, the RET provides an ongoing incentive (until 2030) in the form of Large-scale Technology Certificates (LGCs). Great Investment, Minimal Maintenance Solar systems – unless they are perched on solar trackers – generally have no moving parts and require very little in the way of maintenance or inputs once they are installed and functioning. Tax Benefits ABN holders may be able to claim depreciation and GST credit on solar system energy yields. Solar Power for Residents in Australia A resident using solar energy in Australia is not anymore new, with so many solar distributors popping up giving residents the chance to switch to solar, Australia became the highest rate of household solar panel installation in...

The worldâ€™s first trial to help people with solar systems sell their excess electricity to each other, not back to the grid has been launched with the help of the technology behind virtual currency â€˜bitcoinâ€™. A Software called â€˜blockchainâ€™ is the one that is used to show residents of 10 homes what would happen if they were to trade their electricity with their neighbours, how much they would make and how it would work. Research Fellow at Curtin University’s Sustainability Policy Institute, Jemma Green said â€œa similar virtual trial is being conducted in New York, but the company’s imminent ‘real’ trial with 80 homes in a second South West location, actually doing the transactions and moving the electricity, will be a world first.â€ â€œMore than 22 per cent of Perth and South West homes now hadÂ solar panels and the trial was a natural extension for a marketplace clearly hungry for solar and battery technology. When Tesla energy storage system announced its power wall battery on April 30 last year it had $800 million in pre-orders in the first week,â€ she added. “As prices come down we will see mainstream takeup, the research suggests. “It’sÂ clear people want control of their electricity and to commercialise it how they see fit.” Currently Synergy pays seven cents per unit to people who sell their excess energy back to the grid.Â But if people then needed to buy more energy they still had to pay 26 cents per unit.Â See Also: West Australia Electricity Price Hike Ms Green said “apart from people getting a return on their solar panel investment sooner, there will be an increase in installations. A local government might have demand in one area but no roof space, and lowerÂ lower energy use down the road in a place that can have panels installed. They could then use the blockchain to provide for more of their own energy needs.â€ “At the moment we pay a flat energy tariff and also a time of day tariff based on how much it costs to produce energy at that time of the day. So people can store energy and sell it while the price is high.” â€œTheÂ “blockchain” database enabled peopleÂ to lose the middlemen,â€ Ms. Green added. “This presents an enormous opportunity for traditional providers whose current model is in decline,” Ms Green said. “Over the next few...

Australia is a country with more than 5000 megawatts of solar energy installed, as one of the sunniest continents in the world; we can’t question why solar energy is a fast growing industry in this country. The amount of solar power installation in Australia dramatically increased in 2009 and 2011, and it quadrupled its number in between 2011 and 2016. One of the reasons in the rapid increase of solar energy in Australia is the...

The worldâ€™s first trial to help people with solar systems sell their excess electricity to each other, not back to the grid has been launched with the help of the technology behind virtual currency â€˜bitcoinâ€™. A Software called â€˜blockchainâ€™ is the one that is used to show residents of 10 homes what would happen if they were to trade their electricity with their neighbours, how much they would make and how...

At last! Adelaide Airportâ€™s solar rooftop is now fully functional and is currently supplying approximately 10% of airports energy needs using its 1.17MW generated energy. The new system, installed on the roof of airportâ€™s short-term car park brings the airportâ€™s total solar capacity to 1.28MW â€“ adding to panels installed on the domestic and international terminals in 2007. This huge car park system and is also called as...

Australia is really one of the successful countries that uses solar energy, making country’s citizens to save up to $1 billion per year. “Australia reached 23.2 million solar PV panels installed earlier this year â€” the equivalent of one per person in the country,” Solar Citizens report said. Solar Citizens also took a research about on how much solar owners saved on their regular electricity bills, and they found...

Are you looking for a place where you can best put your solar panel to get more solar energy? Then your not alone in searching such places. But, what if we tell you that having a photovolataic (PV) on deserted, hot and sunny weather doesn’t always work efficiently. The supply of energy produced by solar panels is influenced by the material itself, and believe it or not, researchers found out that sometimes, a thousand of solar...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has revealed details of nine research and development (R&D) projects to be supported through its latest industry-researcher collaboration R&D funding round, which will includeÂ storage, bio fuels, wave power, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal. ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said the funding would create clear pathways for renewable energy technologies to move from the laboratory...